I'll write the content as full paragraphs later. You can help by formatting the headings ;-) And adding categories, links to portals or whatever else needs doing for this page to be a proper member of appropedia (in the public domain). Nah, I'll do it. Thanks anyway. :-)

Please, use the "discussion" tab to add your comments and ideas. I just need some time to write all this done. Thanks for your patience.

Oh, and much thanks to L and V for their ideas, comments and support.

LucasG 11:21, 19 July 2008 (PDT)

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• • public domain 20080719
  • LucasG
  • http://www.globalswadeshi.net

Why

Context

• 6 ways to die
  • Hunger and Thirst, directly
  • Too hot and Too cold, food gives shade, shelter and fuel
  • Disease, food gives nutrition and farmacy, and waste treatment is good for health
  • Injury, food gives shelter and more importantly one less reason to fight each other
• Food just grows vs Food systems are ill
  • Globalised
    • External dependency
    • Just In Time = No Stocks
    • Economic efficiency = No Redundancy
    • Cheap food != Good for you
  • Outcome
    • Poverty
    • Bad health
    • Supply risk
• Levels from individual to global
  • Individual, household, town (50% FAO?) < 10 km (walk, bike)
  • Region (25% FAO?) < 100 km (car, truck)
  • World (25% or less FAO?) > 100 km (boats, trains, planes)

Aim

• Food: 2000 cal/person-day
• Water: 15 liters/person-day
• Irrigation: 100 liters/person-day?

Goal = Help

• Assess
  • Present situation
  • Assetts
  • Distance to horizon
  • Blockage points
  • First steps
• Change
  • Motivation
  • Design
  • Principles
  • Methods
  • Do
  • Help doers

Product = Deliverable

• Open content
• Text
• Video
• Translations

What

Food growth

• Place
  • Land
    • Surface per yield
    • Surface per person
  • Containers
  • Square Foot Gardening
  • EarthBox
  • Bag Garden
  • KeyHole Garden
  • Vertical
• Soil

        - Features
        - Mixtures
        - No-till

• Nutrients

        - Companion plants, green compost
        - Compost, tea compost, humanure, chicken tractors, worms, algae
        - SolarCone, Akvo.org (sanitation)
        - Waste
          - Plants, Kitchen, Humans

• Water

        - Rain catchment, Pyramid, Akvo.org (water)
        - SODIS, WaterCone, deep seawater (cold)
        - Pumps, Selfwatering methods

• Seeds

        - Seedballing, networks, dry, store, select
        - Which crops?
          - Calories
          - Yield
          - Simple to grow
          - Robust crops
          - What do people use all over the world, and locally?

• Protection

        - From
          - Sun, Wind, Pests, Excess water, Animals
        - With
          - Cover, other plants, chemicals, counterbugs, mulch

• Time

        - 3-4 months or more
        - Seasonality - related to storage of food and seeds

• Knowledge

        - Plants
        - Weather

• Work

        - People
          - Attention
          - Bend back
          - Work seated
        - Tools
          - Simple
            - Cup, pencil, etc
          - Complicated
            - Irrigation system, LifeTrac, etc
          - Open design?
        - Kinds of work
          - plant, care, harvest, process
        - # Hours
        - # People

• Climate-Weather
• Non-plant food

        - What: eggs, meat (poultry, rabbits, pigs, cows), fish (sea, ponds, ferrocement tanks), fungi, algae
        - Nutrients, "housing" & care, process, market

Food system

• Transport = catchment area

        - Walk <10 km (individual, town)
        - Bike < 30 km (individual, town)
        - Motor > 30 km (region, world)

• Store

        - Cold
          - Pot in pot, deep sea water, in ground
        - Conserve
          - Solar dryer, Salt

• Cook

        - Solar cooker, cushions, stoves

• Economy

        - Price of food
        - Workers wages
        - Price of inputs
        - Taxes and subsidies
        - Local currencies
          - Buy local means Grow local
          - Fab Lab makes coins?
        - Futures markets = measure risk
        - Business oportunities
          - Grow, Food industries, Sell
          - Support with know-how, make tools, share tools
          - TTT = training, tools, trade

• Regulations

        - Land
        - Food industries
        - Public health
        - Machinery

• Mindset

        - Different people's points of view
        - I'm a farmer, I grow my food, We grow our food
        - Changes here are powerful (Donna Meadows)
        - Changes here may be beyond your sphere of influence

How

Global

• DNA of the project

        - Define
        - Refine
        - Share

• Aim = Usable Content

        - Text
          - 200 pages
        - Video
          - 10 hours
        - TV
          - 200 hours, see Vinay's project

• License

        - Template: ask for open license: what, Why, What, How
        - If not, find open alternatives
        - If not, re-invent, re-photo, re-video

• Ecosystem of cooperation (**)

        - Create content
        - Compile
        - Translate
          - dotsub.com
          - traduwiki.org
          - etc
        - Use
        - All benefit
          - like linux developers
          - linux user groups = local geeks
          - linux end users

Local

• Motivation = Energy for Change

        - Want to
          - Mindset shift
        - Have to
          - Urgent need

• Grow
• Teach
• Business
• Science
• People

        - Available time
        - Skills

• Ecosystem of facilitation (**)

        - Accelerate
        - Leverage
        - Business model(s)
          - Open franchising
        - Transition
          - From fossil-based fertilisers and pesticides
          - From global to local